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Pilot spent ten years building the software that powers its own bookkeeping operation, delivering books for thousands of clients. Now, we’re packaging this system as Meridian and making it available to all accounting firms. We’re hiring an engineering manager to help make this future a reality.
We’re looking for a caring, empathetic engineering manager with a technical background who is excited to build and ship software iteratively. We value being close to our customers, iterating quickly, and learning from what we ship. Our teams operate on high trust, and we value ownership over the outcomes you’re responsible for: building a great system that supports our customers.
This role is for the Infrastructure team, which is responsible for core infrastructure, developer experience, the design system, frontend infrastructure, and security.Our tech stack: Pilot’s backend is written in fully typed Python 3.13, and our frontend is JavaScript, TypeScript, and Vue.js. We use Terraform to manage our production infrastructure, and deploy Docker containers to ECS. AWS CodeDeploy powers our deployments and we rely on Honeycomb for our monitoring and Postgres as our database.
This is a remote position managing a remote team distributed across the United States.In order to successfully fulfill the responsibilities outlined above, we have a small set of requirements. As our ideal candidate, you will have at least two years of experience in an official managerial role, including at least one year managing a remote team, and you can demonstrate experience with most the following:
Note: while we do look to hire Engineering Managers with prior engineering management experience, even if you don’t exactly fit all of the requirements above, we’re always interested in talking to great managers, so get in touch!
Pilot launched in 2017 to bring the back office into the modern era. Pilot provides small businesses with dedicated finance experts - which Pilot hires as full-time, U.S.-based employees - who learn the ins-and-outs of their business. Pilot integrates directly with the billing, banking, expense, and payroll systems customers already use. With a special blend of custom software and expert bookkeepers, Pilot delivers accurate, consistent bookkeeping and financial management and tax services that give entrepreneurs the freedom to focus on their business.
Today, in addition to serving our own clients, we’re bringing our software and system to accounting firms across the country via Meridian.
Pilot has over 3,000 customers and has raised over $170 million in financing from Sequoia, Index Ventures, Stripe, Bezos Expeditions, and Whale Rock. Our investors also include a long list of world-class entrepreneurs, including Patrick and John Collison, Drew Houston, and Diane Greene. Our most recent funding round doubled our valuation to $1.2 billion – Meet Fintech’s Newest Unicorn.
The base pay range target for the role seniority described in this job description is $157,600 - $267,000 in most remote locations, and between $197,000 - $267,000 in San Francisco, CA and New York City, NY. Final offer amounts depend on multiple factors such as candidate experience and expertise, geographic location, total compensation, and market data. In addition to cash pay, full-time regular positions are eligible for equity, 401(k), health benefits, and other benefits; some of these benefits may be available for part-time or temporary positions.
Pilot commits to provide a work environment free of discrimination and harassment, as well as equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. You may view all of Pilot’s recruiting notices here, including our EEO policy, information about requesting a reasonable accommodation in the job application process, recruitment agency policy, recruitment scam notice, and important E-Verify information. You may view our job candidate privacy policy here.
As part of Pilot’s commitment to fair and transparent remote hiring, Pilot uses light identity verification steps, such as briefly waving on camera and/or recording interviews, to confirm that candidates are representing themselves. For some roles, we may also invite finalists to our San Francisco office for onsite interviews. By clicking “Submit Application” below you consent to our recording of interviews with you if your application goes to the interviews stage.
